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Re: Remote working and what it takes
100% agree that setting boundaries with your co-WFH spouse is super critical. It takes a lot of patience, coordination and COMMUNICATION to ensure that you get a good setup going in your home. Living in a small home (hey, housing prices are expensive in WA!) means you need to be really creative about the spaces you can carve out for these purposes. My husband and I set an agreement that whoever has a "big call" (i.e where one of us has to speak/present on it, lead etc) gets to have the home office while the other will have to use either the living room, or dining table or the kitchen counter as a working bar area. If you both need to have calls at the same time, then just be sure to set expectations about noise level (keeping tones down, opening/closing doors quietly etc). The last thing you want when you're working in the kitchen bar area for your spouse to come in and turn on the blender to make a smoothie etc 🙂 Communication is everything. For more tips on working remotely, I also recommend reading this post by our Humans of IT guest blogger and Microsoft WFH veteran April Spreight- a few years ago she transitioned to a fully remote role and called it "life-changing": https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/humans-of-it-blog/guest-blog-adjusting-to-a-fully-remote-work-life/ba-p/12103206.3KViews3likes1Comment
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